[Gllug] txuenergi.co.uk website refusing Mozilla

Doug Winter doug at pigeonhold.com
Thu Mar 6 16:03:09 UTC 2003


On Thu 06 Mar Tethys wrote:
> Sigh. I've just lost the argument with people at work that browser
> detection scripts are evil, and our site will be having them soon :-(
> 
> The problem is that it's so hard to do it right. Rather than being
> able to query the browser's capabilities, the site has to rely on
> a static lookup table based on the User-Agent to determine if the
> browser will work OK.

If you have to do this, have a look at BrowserHawk.  Our front-end
people rate it.  They do ASP, Java and Coldfusion versions.

http://www.cyscape.com/

doug.

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